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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Comunitarismo y Derechos Colectivos
Full text linkWorking Paper N° 22The author distinguishes metaphysical from practical communitarianism, and within the latter he sorts out three different varieties, viz value-, ethical, and techno-legal outlooks. Metaphysical communitarianism is alleged to involve a concealed ideological element, which leads its adherents to stereotypes when trying to capture the essence of the modem self. He goes on to examine possible foundations for the claim that minorities, or other ethnic and cultural groups have collective rights, either moral or legal in nature. Kymlicka' s attempt to vindicate collective rights on liberal Dworkinian foundations is shown to be inimical to the communitarian construal of such rights. Spector tries to uncover a diversity of flaws in the practical communitarian justifications of moral and legal collective rights, and claims that rights are essentially linked to the exercise of rationality, particularly of second-order evaluative capacities. In the end, practical communitarians' case for collective rights needs - he claims -, if it is to maintain the connection between rights and rationality, embracing meta-normative and normative relativism, whose application to political action is argued to yield consequences at odds with widespread ethical intuitions.Este Documento forma parte de la serie Working Papers (ISSN 0327-9588), publicada por la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella entre 1993 y 200
Constitutional Transplants and the Mutation Effect
Full text linkThis article is concerned with constitutional transplantation, that is, the borrowing of constitutional institutions and precedents from foreign jurisdictions. It pursues two main goals. First, it argues that the borrowing of constitutional texts can be successful over long periods of time, and that when the transplanted texts fail, this failure is not easily attributable to transplantation alone. Second, it introduces the notion of a mutation effect to the theoretical analyses of judicial transplants. By mutation of precedents, the author means the process of continuing to extend the scope of a holding, regardless of its factual basis, to cover situations not even contemplated in the reasoning that grounded the original decision. The article discusses the mutation effect by using the doctrine of economic emergency, as invoked by the Argentine Supreme Court to justify the government\u27s expropriations of bank deposits.
This paper also examines two lines of economic research on legal transplantation. First, the so-called LLSV paper implies that developing countries should transplant corporate and financial law from common law jurisdictions, because this legal family affords stronger protection for investors (e.g., creditors and shareholders) than civil law. Second, the label transplant effect has been used to describe the ineffectiveness of legal transplants that result from insufficient local demand for the transplanted law. By handling the notion of mutation effect the article seeks to qualify the conclusions that could be drawn both from the LLSV and the transplant-effect papers
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Review of Horacio Spector, Autonomy and Rights: The Moral Foundations of Liberalism
Full text linkWork reviewed: Autonomy and Rights: The Moral Foundations of Liberalism by Horacio Spector
Horacio Spector, Autonomy and Rights: The Moral Foundations of Liberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) ISBN 978019953362
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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